ANGELINA DOHRE
Special to The Leader
The Applied Communication Association will be hosting its twelfth annual Fall Sweep for the on Sunday, Oct. 30. Other sponsors of this event include the Public Relations Student Society of America at Fredonia and Home Depot.
The event coordinators for this year’s Fall Sweep are senior communications studies major Zoe Tzetzis, junior public relations major Cori Barnard and senior social work major Maya Ramos. Barnard is the president of the ACA and Tzetzis is the vice president.
“I was a part of this event last year,” Tzetzis said. “We had a really good turnout. About 500 to 600 students showed up, and everyone seemed really happy.”
The coordinators for this year have had some experience with Fall Sweep in the past. “This is my first year helping coordinate the event, but I was a general body member last year,” Barnard said. “I’m following Zoey’s footsteps this year since I’m a junior.”
Ramos has also helped with Fall Sweep in the past. “This is my second year participating in Fall Sweep, and I volunteered to be a co-coordinator because I saw how it was run last year and thought I could be of help organizing the event this year,” she said.
Each year, all the groups signed up for the event meet in the Williams Center just before starting the event.
“All of the clubs and organizations on campus come together in the Multipurpose room,” Barnard said. “We have a little free breakfast, divvy up what street is going to what club, give a few speeches, and then everyone goes out into the community and kind of gives back to residents. A lot of elders love it. They all really appreciate it.”
A few changes are being made this year. “We took the advice from students about getting more rakes and dividing the streets up better, and we added a raffle,” Tzetzis said. “It was nice doing the event the year before because we were able to get feedback about what to change.”
As for changes next year, Barnard has a couple ideas.
“Maybe we can have a fundraiser beforehand or something to advertise more, but I think we’re doing a great job already,” she said. “It’s kind of hard to tell now.”
Getting the word out to people are the coordinator’s main responsibility. “We’re in the process of getting posters all around campus, and [we] had a table in McEwen where we were selling our t-shirts which is also something new this year,” Tzetzis said. “We’re also getting all the information to arrange FSA catering, working with Campus Life to get the word out to different people and arranging rooms that we need, like the Multipurpose room in the Williams Center.”
Students thinking about joining this event should definitely take advantage of it, according to Tzetzis.
“I think it’s really rewarding,” Tzetzis said. “You get the opportunity to work with all the students on campus, and then you can all go together as a team and help out the community, and [it] bridges that gap between the campus and community.”
Before the event, Tzetzis, Barnard and Ramos will have fliers distributed to residences that are eligible to be raked in the local area. During the morning of the event, those who want their lawn raked will have the flier posted on their front door.
For more information, contact the event coordinators at fallsweep14@gmail.com..